Ethnicity and Sexuality

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2297403
AutoresJ Nagel (0000-0002-6452-0297, University of Kansas, autor de correspondencia)
Año2000
Volumen26
Número1
Páginas107-133
Fecha de publicación2000-08-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAnnual Review of Sociology (BOOK_SERIES)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0360-0572 • E-ISSN: 1545-2115
EditorialAnnual Reviews (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1146/annurev.soc.26.1.107
OpenAlexW2119895651
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas112
Referencias citadas159

This paper explores the connections between ethnicity and sexuality. Racial, ethnic, and national boundaries are also sexual boundaries. The borderlands dividing racial, ethnic, and national identities and communities constitute ethnosexual frontiers, erotic intersections that are heavily patrolled, policed, and protected, yet regularly are penetrated by individuals forging sexual links with ethnic 'others.' Normative heterosexuality is a central component of racial, ethnic, and nationalist ideologies; both adherence to and deviation from approved sexual identities and behaviors define and reinforce racial, ethnic, and nationalist regimes. To illustrate the ethnicity/sexuality nexus and to show the utility of revealing this intimate bond for understanding ethnic relations, I review constructionist models of ethnicity and sexuality in the social sciences and humanities, and I discuss ethnosexual boundary processes in several historical and contemporary settings: the sexual policing of nationalism, sexual aspects of US-American Indian relations, and the sexualization of the black-white color line

Heterosexuality · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues · Gender Roles and Identity Studies · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy